16: In the UK – The United Kingdom government issues a policy called 'British Indian Ocean Territory Immigration Ordinance #1' which makes it a criminal offense for those without military clearance to be on the Chagos islands (including Diego Garcia) without a permit, thereby expelling all the indigenous inhabitants of the Chagos Islands without compensation in order for the United Sates to build a military base on Diego Garcia. (A 1966 leaked diplomatic cable referring to the Chagos Islanders disparagingly as 'Tarzans' and 'Men Fridays' reveals the nature of the US–UK discourse on the local inhabitants).

2015: Prof Philippe Sands QC, of Matrix Chambers, who was lead external counsel for Mauritius before the United Nations Tribunal, says after its ruling in favour of Mauritius: "This is a historic and far-reaching judgment: for Mauritius, for Africa, for the international rule of law. It offers hope that Mauritius and Britain will be able to move forward to bring to an end an unhappy legacy of colonialism in the Chagos archipelago and Diego Garcia. It opens the door to a return to legality, in relation to matters of sovereignty and the conservation of a remarkable environmental space."
Britain acted illegally in the way it has exercised territorial control over the Chagos Islands, a UN tribunal rules, raising questions over the UKâs claim to sovereignty and offering hope of return to hundreds of evicted islanders.

May

18: In Jerusalem, Israel – Young MizrahiJews (from North Africa and Middle East), after forming the Black Panther protest movement (הפנתרים השחורים‎, HaPanterim HaShhorim), hold a more than five-thousand strong 'Night of the Panthers' protest in Zion Square against the continuing racial discrimination they experience from the Jewish Ashkenazi elite in positions of power in Israel.

In

Jewish-American Neo-Nazi Rabbi

the USA – Ex-FBI informant (aka 'Michael King') Jewish Zionist activist Rabbi (Martin David) MEIR KAHANE is arrested for criminal activities. (See 1968). (Kahane and other Jewish Defense League members are arrested on illegal weapons charges and bomb possession. Police also suspect Rabbi Kahane's involvement in a series of previous bombings at Soviet installations. Kahane denies all charges but is sentenced on 23 July 1971 to five years' imprisonment, suspended, and a $5,000 fine. These events and court trial do not mellow Kahane's virulent rhetoric but hasten his departure to Israel where his animosity finds its new focus on the Palestinians)

June

13: In the USA – The New York Times begins publishing articles based on the secret report "U.S. Decision-Making in Vietnam, 1945â68" or Pentagon Papers (as the McNamara report came to be known) leaked by DANIEL ELLSBERG, and the U.S. Department of Justice obtains a restraining order against the newspaper.
After more than two weeks of legal wrangling, the Supreme Court rules that the federal government had not made the case for prior restraint of publication.

The Pentagon Papers
in the US

(Ellsberg

is indicted under the Espionage Act, and the charges leveled against him could have resulted in up to 115 years in prison. The trial against Ellsberg, which begins in January 1973, lasts four months and concludes with the dismissal of all charges after evidence of gross governmental misconduct comes to light. In 2006 he received the Right Livelihood Award, an honour that bills itself as the "alternative Nobel Prize." He was a vocal proponent of the media organization WikiLeaks, and Julian Assange, that group's founder, cited Ellsberg as an inspiration for its creation.)

July

30: In Apollo 15, moom landing – US pilot, astronaut, and sincere Christian, Col. James Benson "Jim" Irwin, reads Psalm 121:1-2 in the Bible from the moon to a listening world –

"I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come?
My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth."

Irwin leaves NASA and retires from the U.S. Air Force with the rank of Colonel in 1972 and founds the High Flight Foundation, spending his last 20 years as a "Goodwill Ambassador for the Prince of Peace", stating that "Jesus walking on the earth is more important than man walking on the moon". He frequently speaks about how his experiences in space has made the presence of God even more real to him than before.

November

23: In France –PAUL TOUVIER, head of the pro-Nazi Vichy republic's vicious paramilitary Milice in the Lyonnais region and guilty of torture and murder of Jews, is pardoned by President POMPIDOU. (See 1972).

In

West Bank, Palestine – HUSSEIN FARAHAT dies, survived by five children, but his seven-dunam/1.75 acre plot of land is later taken over by Jewish settlers, through a forged deed of sale ('bought' by a company owned by the wife of Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed, later head of the Beit El yeshiva, and the wife of MK Yaakov Katz, National Union party), who establish the Beit ElJewish settlement.

The Ulpana illegal Jewish outpost is an extension of this settlement on stolen land.

(Hassin Farahat, one of the late Hussein Farahat's sons, who comes back to his village in 1999 after living in the United States, asks to join the legal process concerning the fake sale. His attorney, Alaa Makhjana, notes that his client believes that the forgers thought they could get away with it because the family had left for the United States. He says his client is well aware of the attempts of the Jewish settlers to take over the family land for political reasons.)

1972

January: In Northern Ireland – The British army opens fire on protestors killing 14 people in Derry's Bogside. (Thirteen people were killed by members of the Parachute Regiment on the day of the incident. Another victim of the shootings died in hospital four months later.) Following the publication of the Saville report in 2010, Prime Minister David Cameron apologises for the Army's actions, branding them "unjustified and unjustifiable".

The first prosecution of one of those responsible (Lance Corporal J) starts in 2015.

It became known
as Blood Sunday

February

12, night: The Russian KGB burgles the Paris headquarters of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) via the main entrance with a duplicate key and removes the entire card-index database of the WJC's French supporters with details of financial contributions and 30,000 addresses in 55 countries to which the WJC French magazine 'Information Juive' is posted. (See June14).

France – New charges are laid against PAUL TOUVIER for crimes against humanity but he is hidden from arrest and supported by a Catholic network, in a number of convents and monasteries, under Mgr DUQUAIRE (secretary of the primate of Gaul) and Mgr. GONET (a secretary of the episcopate).

April

So provocations continue

28: In Palestine –An Israeli Piper plane flies over the Arab village of Akraba, spraying a chemical defoliant on the villagers' wheat crops. (Previously, the Israeli Army had forcibly confiscated 100,000 dunums of arable land. In May, 1971, the villagers had been asked to sell their remaining land. When they refuse, their crops are thus destroyed).

29: In Israel –The Japanese Red Army attack the Lod Airport on behalf of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, indiscriminately killing 26 people and injuring 78 others. (Source: BBC).

In Palestine –

The forcibly removed former inhabitants of the Christian Arab village of Iqrit are still prevented from returning to their land confiscated by the Israeli government without compensation. (See: October 31, 1948).

14: The database stolen by the KGB operative code-named 'Chub' from the World Jewish Congress headquarters in Paris (February 12) is now delivered to to the Soviet Consulate in two full suitcases and a shopping bag.

2: The Italian publication Gente writes that terrorists from Black September are planning a "sensational act during the Olympic Games" in Germany.

6: In Germany –Palestinian terrorists kill eleven Israeli Olympic athletes at Munich, nine are held hostage but killed when German police fire prematurely at the Fürstenfeldbruk airport (See 1979).
(A few days later, a chief police commissioner seizes information concerning 26 potential crisis scenarios for the Munich Olympics, which had been prepared by a police psychologist to aid in preparing a security concept for the games. One of the scenarios involved an attack by Palestinian terrorists at the Olympic village. When the Bavarian state intelligence agency inquires after the materials, police officials acknowledge that they had been created and discussed during preparatory seminars ahead of the Olympics, but indicate that a written record is "not available". The documents are still missing today.)

California –(Reb) YAKOV LEIB HAKOHAIN (Lawrence G. Corey) founds Dönmeh West (name taken from the eastern version in Turkey), a Neo-Sabbatian virtual community practicing a syncretistic Kabbalism in the tradition of Jewish false Messiah SABBATAI TZEVI (Shebbatai Tzvi/Zevi/Sevi), who was proclaimed Jewish Messiah in 1665 and converted to Islam in 1666.Tzevi's apostasy to Islam is now presented as a sacrificial act to save the world as being similar to Jesus.

The Blasphemy

October

16: In Rome –Israel's secret service Mossad assassinates WADAL ZWAITER, the Italian representative of the PLO.

Mossad Assassination

In

Southern Tanzania – Off the coast of Dar es Salaam, the French supplied South African submarine SAS Emily Hobhouse (now renamed SAS Umkhonto) lands a Special Forces group under Jan Dirk Breytenbach at night to destroy Tanzanian bridges and powerlines so as to create the false impression, in collaboration with America's CIA (in terms of the Cold War scenario), that it was done by the Frelimo revolutionaries of Mozambique in order to disillusion and end their Tanzanian support. A Tanzanian fisherman who happens to see the South African submarine is shot dead by its commander Lambert Woodburne. While making the pick up rendezvous, the submarine also snags a fishing net and sinks the fishing vessel dragging the net. This mission earns Lt Cdr Woodburne South Africa's Van Riebeeck Decoration in spite of his murder of an unarmed civilian.

December

7: In Belfast, Northern Ireland – In Divis Flats, Jean McConville, mother of ten children, is abducted, tortured and executed and her body buried on a beach by the Irish Republican Army (Sinn Féin) on the instructions of Gerry Adams (arrested 2014), in collaboration with Martin McGuiness, on the false allegation of being an informant for the British, because she had helped a wounded British soldier.

February 21, at 13.44: The Israeli airforce shoots down a Libyan civilian airliner over Sinai killing 108 passengers and crew. (There were 113 people on board, of those there were five survivors, including the co-pilot). The airliner had become lost over northern Egypt due to a combination of bad weather and equipment failure. The Israeli government agrees to pay compensation for the killing and destruction.

April:

In Lebanon – Israeli commandos spend a day in Beirut, hunting down and killing some of the best known leaders of the PLO.

6: In Paris –Israel's secret service Mossad assassinates BASIL KUBAISSI, PFLP member (see 1974) and American University of Beirut law professor.

In the first six months of 1973 Syria receives almost $200,000,000 worth of arms and aircraft from the USSR.

Lillehammer Murder Team'Caesarea' unit of Mossad

1.

Zwi Zamir (supervisor), Zahala, Israel.

2.

Georg Manner (team leader)

3.

Gustav Pistauer (deputy leader)

4.

Jean-Luc Sevenier

5.

Michael Dorf

6.

Dan Ærbel

7.

Raoul Cousin

8.

Ethel Marianne Gladnikoff

9.

Abraham Gehmer

10.

Sylvia Raphael-Schjødt (died Pretoria, SA, 9/02/2005.

11.

Victor Zipstein

12.

Nora Heffner

13.

Jonathan Isaac Englesberg (Ingleby)

14.

Tamara (shooter #2, GM's mistress)

15.

Rolf Baehr

16.

Gerard-Emile Lafond

17.

Michael Harari (operation leader)

July

Mossad Assassination

Saturday 21: In Lillehammer, Norway –An Israeli Mossad team assassinates a man it believes (in error) is Ali Hassan Salameh (a leader of Black September) as he returns from a movie with his seven-month pregnant wife TORILL. The victim is a Moroccan waiter AHMED BOUCHIKI, not Salameh, who is shot fourteen times (fired by agents 13 & 14, see right column).

Mossad agents, including two women, are captured by Norwegian authorities while the rest of the team flee, assisted by Norwegian intelligence services. Mossad agents Dan Ert (Ærbel) and Marianne Gladnikoff had rented cars in their own name and were arrested when they returned the cars. Under interrogation, they provided the address of a Mossad safe house and four other agents are arrested. One member of the hit squad, Sylvia Raphael, was using the identity of Canadian Patricia Roxborough, a legal secretary whose passport had been stolen months earlier from the desk of her Montreal office. Sylvia is arrested with Abraham Gehmer. (Mossad assassination squads known as kidon, routinely use the identity of real people who are unaware their names are being used).

Five

agents are convicted 1 February 1974 (Dorf acquitted) and later sentenced to prison terms ranging from two and a half to five years but all are released within 22 months and deported to Israel. Under interrogation Dan Ærbel leaks information about the Israeli nuclear weapons program but the Norwegian authorities decided not to disclose it.

(In 1994

the Norwegian government is advised that the widow of Bouchikhi had not received any compensation from Norway or any other country for the state-sponsored assassination of her husband. This leads to Norwegian diplomatic contact with Israel on the issue and in 1996 the Israeli government pays compensation equal to US$283,000 split between Bouchiki's wife and daughter, and a separate settlement of US$118,000 to his son from a previous marriage, but has never admitted responsibility for Bouchiki's vicious murder. It took Israel 23-years to pay and only after Norway put pressure on Israel.Without this Norwegian initiative, Israel would probably not have given compensation).

The Lillehammer affair is considered the first terrorist act on Norwegian soil in the post-war period.

Israeli air force fights Syria off the Syrian coast in the greatest air battle since the Six Day War. (See 1967).

Tuesday 11: In Chile, South America –The United States backs a coup to install PINOCHET as dictator, against Chile's democratically elected Socialist government, having previously deployed CIA operatives in Chile to propagate anti-Allende propaganda and help organise his overthrow. The CIA continues to cooperate with Pinochet to eliminate his opponents and critics (Operation Condor).

the USA – National Security Agency (NSA) special research (female) intern SHARON of Unit 848, assigned to the NSA Middle East and North Africa department ("not an expert on the Middle East, but a highly qualified and convincing handler, backed by experts") becomes convinced that a military attack on Israel is being prepared by Egypt and Syria.

But

Intelligence Community Standing Order no.6 specifically bars the NSA from generating âfinal intelligence assessmentsâ and her presentation to the CIAâs Middle East expert SAMUEL HOSKINSON is therefore not accepted by him. (no.6 since amended)

CIA's arrogant unbelief

Saturday 5: 10 PM In London – ZVI ZAMIR (Israel's Mossad chief), accompanied by DUBI ASHEROV and Mossad security personnel, meet with Dr ASHRAF MARWAN at a safe house who again warns Israel that war is imminent. (See: his betrayal, June 27, 2007).

However,

the Israeli government still does not prepare for an attack or call up the reserves (which would have given Israel a 30-hour advantage), but Zamir's phone call and then his telegram to his bureau chief, Fredi Eini, and a message from Eini to Israel's leaders eventually changes their minds.

1973 Arab-Israeli War

Sunday 6: 2 PM:Egypt and Syria simultaneously attack Israel on two fronts on the JewishYom Kippur (Day of Atonement), the Muslim 10th day of Ramadãn.

Yom Kippur War

Weapons of Mass
Destruction prepared

Tuesday 8:Israeli Prime Minister GOLDA MEIR authorizes the assembly of thirteen 20-kiloton-of-TNT 84 TJ) tactical atomic weapons for Jericho missiles at Hirbat Zachariah, and F-4 aircraft at Tel Nof, both nuclear-capable delivery systems.
These are prepared for use against Syrian and Egyptian targets, but the preparation is done in an easily detectable way, probably as a signal to the United States.

Israel prepares
to launch nuclear weapons
against Syria and Egypt.

In the

USA – America's KISSINGER learns of the nuclear alert on the morning of October 9 and therefore that day President Nixon orders the commencement of Operation Nickel Grass, an American airlift to replace all of Israel's material losses.

In this process, Portugal's assistance is indispensable to the American airlift.

14:A 100,000 strong Egyptian force launches the biggest tank battle since the second world war. After initial success they are driven back by desperate Israeli forces.

17:Muslim oil states force a massive increase in world oil prices to punish the West for its support of Israel.

22: The UN Security Council passes Resolution 338 calling for an immediate cease fire, and the full implementation of Resolution 242 of 1967. (Resolutions of the Security Council are binding upon all member states of the United Nations). The text reads:

The Security Council,

Calls upon all parties to present fighting to cease all firing and terminate all military activity immediately, no later than 12 hours after the moment of the adoption of this decision, in the positions after the moment of the adoption of this decision, in the positions they now occupy;

Calls upon all parties concerned to start immediately after the cease-fire the implementation of Security Council Resolution 242 (1967) in all of its parts;

Decides that, immediately and concurrently with the cease-fire, negotiations start between the parties concerned under appropriate auspices [US & Soviet] aimed at establishing a just and durable peace in the Middle East.

24: Effectively war ends on the Egyptian front, but continues on the Syrian front.

26:US forces are placed on world-wide alert after satellite intelligence shows that the Soviet Union plans to send military force to help Egyptian forces trapped in Sinai by Israel.

December:

In Brazil, near the border with Paraguay –Three Jewish Israeli agents beat to death an elderly farmer of German descent in front of his wife and children on the mistaken assumption that he is the notorious Nazi doctor JOSEF MENGELE of Auschwitz.

In Germany

– Since March 1953, a staff of nearly 5,000 judges and civil servants have now processed 95% of the 4,276,000 claims for compensation by victims of the German Holocaust, absorbing about 5% of the German Federal Budget.

Attempted reparations

A Jubilee Year

1974

April 11: In Israel –The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) enters an apartment block in Kiryat Shmona and massacres all 18 residents, including nine children.

April

25: In Portugal – The Lisbon Coup or 'Carnation Revolution' takes place which deposes the authoritarian regime of Estado Novo or Second Republic (which had evolved from the Ditadura Nacional formed after the coup d'état of 28 May 1926 against the democratic and unstable First Republic). The revolution starts as a military coup organized by the Armed Forces Movement (Portuguese: Movimento das ForÃ§as Armadas, MFA) composed of military officers who oppose the regime, but the movement soon couples with an unanticipated and popular campaign of civil resistance.

This movement leads to the fall of the Estado Novo and the withdrawal of Portugal from its African colonies and East Timor.

May

15: In Israel –The PFLP enters the Ma'alot Highschool, taking hostages to demand the release of 23 militants. When Israel's troops storm the building 25 hostages are killed (including 22 children) and 66 wounded.31: Israel signs a truce with Syria in the Golan Heights after US mediation, agreeing to pull back their respective forces on the Golan Heights to the 'Purple Line', and a United Nations buffer zone is set up. The United Nations Disengagement Observer Force Zone (UNDOF) is then established by the UN after the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 350.

"To convince us that before Israel, Palestine was a desert, hundreds of villages were razed by bulldozer – their houses, walls, graveyards and their tombs." (Shahak, "Racism and the State of Israel", p.152).

April: A defence agreement is secretly signed berween Israel and South Africa with particular reference to the supply of uranium for nuclear purposes.

June 5: Egyptian president SADAT re-opens Suez Canal after eight years to the day (see 1967).

September: Israel and Egypt with US mediation reach an interim accord on Israeli withdrawal from Sinai.

November: The United Nations General Assembly approves Resolution 3379 by 67 votes to 55 denouncing Zionism as a form of racism. But, according to the UK's Chief Rabbi IMMANUEL JAKOBOVITS (later honoured as a British Lord) –

"UN resolutions hostile to Israel had been commonplace, but none could compare in virulence to this one. Its impact on Jews everywhere was devastating...".

[Mistakenly as though zionist fascism is intrinsically Jewish and so affects all Jews].

Zionism defined as racism

In

Israel – The Israeli diamond industry now accounts for about 40% of Israel's non-agricultural exports.

'Land Day' begins

1976

March 30: In Israel – In response to the Israeli government's announcement of a plan to expropriate thousands of dunams of their land for "security and settlement purposes", a general strike and marches are organized in Palestinian and Israeli Arab towns from the Galilee to the Negev. Six Israeli Arabs are killed, about one hundred are wounded, and hundreds of others arrested in confrontations with Israeli police and army.

1 dunam =1,000 square metres

This day is later commemorated annually as Land Day by Palestinians who were essential an agrarian people, 75% of whom made their living off the land before the establishment of the Israeli state.

Dr Wouter Basson of RSA in its
chemical weapons development
(such as a
powder that could
be
sprayed on a toilet seat
which absorbed through the skin
produced a fatal heart attack
without leaving any residue).

June 16: In South Africa – The shooting of protesting schoolchildren (protesting against the Apartheid/racial separation practices of the government) by the South African Police triggers widespread international condemnation. As a consequence, in reaction and in view of the Soviet Union's encroachment in the region, the South Africa government begins Project Coast to develop a chemical and biological weapons program.
Medical doctor WOUTER BASSON is appointed head of Project Coast and sent overseas to collect needed information. Consequently, at a company in Midrand called Delta G Scientific, researchers work (unsuccessfully) to find an infertility âvaccineâ to be used on black women without their knowledge; to find substances that could kill people leaving no trace post mortem (a powder is produced which absorbed through the skin if placed spread on a toilet seat would produce a heart-attack-death of 'natural cause'); and where tons of teargas, ecstasy and mandrax are produced.

South Africa's
chemical weapons
development

29: In New York –The United Sates vetoes (10 to 1, 4 abstentions) a resolution of the United Nations Security Council on the Question of the Exercise by the Palestinian People of their Inalienable Rights.

American Injustice

1977

In Israel – CLAUDE KLEIN, Director of the Institute of Comparative Law of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, writes –

"If the Jewish people are easily the most numerous in the State of Israel, by the same token, one can still say that the entire population of the State of Israel is not Jewish, as the country has a sizeable non-Jewish minority, mainly Arab and Druze. The question which must be asked is to what extent the existence of a Law of Return which favours the immigration of one part of the population (defined by its religious and ethnic adherence), cannot be regarded as discriminatory" and concludes that because it is not specifically directed against non-Jews it is therefore not discriminatory.

(Published as: The Jewish Character of the State of Israel, Ed.Cujas, Paris 1977).

Discriminationnot
discriminatory?!

DAVID JC

IRVING, 'historian' and admirer of HITLER, quotes (in defending Hitler from Holocaust accusations) in a footnote at page 851 of this year's edition of Hitler's War, a passage extracted from notes made by VON RIBBENTROP while held in the prison at Nuremberg:

"...that [Hitler] ordered [the destruction of the Jews] I refuse to believe, because such an act would be wholly incompatible with the picture I always had of him".

However, IRVING chooses to deliberately omit the immediately following passage in VON RIBBENTROP's notes which reads –

"On the other hand, judging from [Hitler's] Last Will, one must suppose that he at least knew about it, if, in his fanaticism against the Jews, he didn't also order [it]".

(An indefensibly false editing by IRVING – See April 2000.)

January 10: In Russia – A memorandum of the Soviet Central Committee by VALERY EMELIANOV claims that America is controlled by a Zionist-masonic conspiracy led by the 'B'nai Brith Gestapo'.

Monday 12: In South Africa – STEPHEN BANTU BIKO (Steve Biko), black consciousness leader and member of the World Student Christian Federation, dies after being interrogated and tortured by security police officers Major Harold Snyman and Gideon Nieuwoudt for 22-hours, and then transferred naked and restrained in manacles on a 1100-km drive to a Pretoria prison.

November

13: BEGIN invites SADAT of Egypt to address Israel's Knesset (parliament). 21: SADAT becomes the first Arab head of state to visit Israel. and addresses the Israeli parliament. 26: SADAT in Cairo calls for Middle East peace talks with Israel.

December

5: SADAT severs ties with states that oppose his peace moves – Syria, Libya, Algeria and South Yemen. 16: BEGIN offers to return Sinai to Egypt. 26: Egypt's SADAT and Israel's BEGIN end two days peace talks in Ismailia, Egypt.

29: In Israel – Christians in Israel and the occupied territories protest against a new law passed by the Israeli parliament making it illegal for missionaries to evangelise Jews.

Members of the Arab Revolutionary Council poison Israeli oranges with mercury, injuring at least 12 people and reducing exports by 40%.

Oranges poisoned

The

holocaust-denying 'Institute for Historical Review' (IHR) is founded in the USA by by DAVE McCALDEN (aka Lewis Brandon), a former member of the extreme right-wing National Front, and WILLIS CARTO. (See 1985).

January 18: In Egypt – SADAT demands the inclusion of the Palestinians in peace talks with Israel.

March 11: In Israel –From South Lebanon's Palestinian refugee camps a group of armed men and one woman, DALAL MUGHRABI, land by rubber dingy on the coastal strip north of Tel Aviv in an attempt to attack Israeli government institutions, take hostages to exchange for Palestinian prisoners, and to impede Israel's peace accord with Egypt.

Dalal Mughrabi

At the

beach landing, American nature photographer GAIL RUBIN is shot dead to prevent her disclosure of their presence.
After hijacking a taxi and opening fire on passing traffic, the attack becomes a hostage situation of 71 persons after the hijacking of two busses in succession and transfer of all from the first bus to the second.
Near Herzliya, Israeli forces stop the bus approaching Tel Aviv and during the ensuing shoot-out the bus explodes.
Ten militants, including MUGHRABI, one Israeli policeman and 38 hostages are killed in the shoot-out and subsequent explosion, and 72 are wounded, including one militant.
It is reported that EHUD BARAK who headed the Israeli reaction, was seen firing bullets into the corpse of MUGHRABI.
The Guardian newspaper (UK) later reports that during the shoot-out, DALAL MUGHRABI had raised the Palestinian flag and declared the establishment of a Palestinian State.

March

14: In Lebanon –In response, the Israeli military launches Operation Litani against PLO bases.
(As part of the 2008 Israel-Hezbollah prisoner swap, Mughrabi's remains were supposed to be exhumed and returned to Lebanon but this did not happen).

April

1: In Israel –The law passed by the Israeli parliament (knesset) at the end of 1977 now comes into force making it a crime to evangelise Jews, carrying a penalty of five years imprisonment and three years imprisonment for any Jew so converted.

State Persecution
for evangelism of Jews

(The following year Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef issues a religious ruling that copies of the New Testament should be torn out of any edition of a Bible owned by a Jew).

May:

In France – MAURICE PAPON (see January 11, 1944) is appointed Minister of the Budget.

September 18: In America – SADAT and BEGIN reach agreement in US hosted talks to return Sinai to Egypt and for Egypt to open diplomatic relations with Israel, but the Arab states are enraged. In Iran –Forces of the Shah (MUHAMMAD REZA PAHLAVI) massacre about 900 peaceful demonstrators in Tudeh Square. The Shah's cruel regime with its American support further radicalises Islamic fundamentalism.

November: 18

Jonestown Massacre

Jonestown, North West region of Guyana — over 900 people were found dead of Cyanide poisoning in the settlement.
In 1955 the so-called "Peopleâs temple" was established by a man called Jim Jones, it was effectively an Antichristian cult which preached "those who remained drugged with the opiate of religion had to be brought to enlightenment – socialism."
After receiving much criticism in Indianapolis, he had moved the headquarters of his socialist cult to California having changed location over time moving to various Californian cities including LA and San Francisco.
In 1973, after becoming increasingly paranoid of potential crackdowns by the US government, police and the media on the group for itâs socialist philosophy during the Cold war and the USâs ideological battle against Socialist Russia, Jones decided to set up a Socialist utopia outside the USA.
He chose Guyana for itâs left leaning egalitarian politics, weak extradition links with the US and itâs equal and tolerant society as opposed to the largely (in his opinion) racist government and corporations of the US. Initially the settlement was built by 500 cult members who proceeded to live there, but by itâs peak in 1978 hit just under 1000 members.

In

Spain – Fugitive official, DARQUIER, formerly of the fascist French Vichy government, maintains, in an interview with L'Express –

"Only lice were gassed in Auschwitz ...the Jews always lie. The Jews who immigrated into France before the war ...these half-breeds ...wanted our ruin." (Emphasis mine).

1979

January 22: In Lebanon – Israeli car-bomb kills ABU HASSAN in Beirut, alleged organizer of the Munich Olympic Games massacre of Israeli athletes (see 1972). March 1: In New York – The United Nations Security Council passes Resolution 446 (12 to 0, abstentions Norway, the United Kingdom and the United States of America) which reads –

The Security Council,

•

Having heard the statement of the Permanent Representative of Jordan and other statements made before the Council,

•

Stressing the urgent need to achieve a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in the Middle East,

•

Affirming once more that the Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War of 12 August 1949 1/ is applicable to the Arab territories occupied by Israel since 1967, including Jerusalem,

1.

Determines that the policy and practices of Israel in establishing settlements in the Palestinian and other Arab territories occupied since 1967 have no legal validity and constitute a serious obstruction to achieving a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in the Middle East;

2.

Strongly deplores the failure of Israel to abide by Security Council resolutions 237 (1967) of 14 June 1967, 252 (1968) of 21 May 1968 and 298 (1971) of 25 September 1971 and the consensus statement by the President of the Security Council on 11 November 1976 2/ and General Assembly resolutions 2253 (ES-V) and 2254 (ES-V) of 4 and 14 July 1967, 32/5 of 28 October 1977 and 33/113 of 18 December 1978;

3.

Calls once more uponIsrael, as the occupying Power, to abide scrupulously by the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention, to rescind its previous measures and to desist from taking any action which would result in changing the legal status and geographical nature and materially affecting the demographic composition of the Arab territories occupied since 1967, including Jerusalem, and, in particular, not to transfer parts of its own civilian population into the occupied Arab territories;

4.

Establishes a Commission consisting of three members of the Security Council, to be appointed by the President of the Council after consultations with the members of the Council, to examine the situation relating to settlements in the Arab territories occupied since 1967, including Jerusalem;

5.

Requests the Commission to submit its report to the Security Council by 1 July 1979;

6.

Requests the Secretary-General to provide the Commission with the necessary facilities to enable it to carry out its mission.

7.

Decides to keep the situation in the occupied territories under constant and close scrutiny and to reconvene in July 1979 to review the situation in the light of the findings of the Commission.

(bold emphasis mine)

In

Birzeit, near Ramallah, Palestine – Israel closes Birzeit University campus by military order for two weeks. This is the first of many military ordered closures. (Between 1979 and 1992, the University is closed 60% of the time. The 15th and last closure lasted for 51 months, from January 10, 1988 until April 29, 1992. During this prolonged closure, the University continued to operate underground with small study groups in makeshift arrangements outside the campus. Under such conditions, many students needed as long as 10 years to complete their four-year degree courses).

22: Of the coast of South Africa – With the cooperation of the South African government, Israel conducts a nuclear detonation, the third of a series of Indian Ocean nuclear tests that Israel conducted in cooperation with South Africa. The US satellite, Vela 6911, detects the double-flash typical of a nuclear weapon test but the US suppresses the report.

December:

The Soviet Union intervenes in support of the Afghan communist government in its conflict with anticommunist Muslim guerrillas during the Afghan War (1978â92) and remains in Afghanistan until mid-February 1989.